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MARCHING WITH GOMEZ. A War Correspondent Field Note-Book Kept During Four Months With the Cuban Army
by Flint, Grover
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Flint, Grover. Octavo, red cloth covers with gilt titles, xxix [i] 294 + 5 pages of publisher's ads. Top edge gilt. One corner bumped, black inkspot about 3/8" in diameter also damp stain at foot of spine (noticeable in gutter of ads at rear of book). Illustrated by the author. With an Historical Introduction by John Fiske. Former owner name on front paste-down endpaper. A book about Cuban guerillas fighting the Spanish Army on the eve of the Spanish-American war. 021210C
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000015915
- Title
- MARCHING WITH GOMEZ. A War Correspondent Field Note-Book Kept During Four Months With the Cuban Army
- Author
- Flint, Grover
- Illustrator
- Flint, Grover
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Lamson, Wolffe and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1898
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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